Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order is likely to be the largest single low pressure C02 contract awarded for a UK site this year . |
| 2 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 3 | Greenpeace 's decision to apply for a review follows its successful private prosecution of chemical company Albright and Wilson — the first such private action taken under the provisions of the 1989 Water Act . |
| 4 | Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture . |
| 5 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ she asked with swift acidity , as Melissa 's mouth sagged for a fraction of a second because of the unexpected ferocity of her reply . |
| 7 | The boy 's concentration lasted for a couple of seconds after the halt was achieved . |
| 8 | When they arrived home , Liz quickly wrote to the curator of the castle 's museum to ask for a pattern of the dress , only to be told that it had been copied from an 1898 issue of the London Illustrated News . |
| 9 | In 1936 he had been a member of the Archbishop 's committee preparing for a conference to be held at Oxford on Church , Community and State . |
| 10 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 11 | The UK government has since tried to use Acheson 's opinion to argue for an upwards revision of the 50 mg/litre limit . |
| 12 | If pressed , many ERM-sympathisers would agree that last year 's crisis calls for a rethink , but few see the need for anything radical . |
| 13 | Nicola 's husband hesitated for a moment , rubbing his nose . |
| 14 | Abbot Kenneth 's praying hesitated for a second . |
| 15 | The IMF announced on May 21 that it had agreed to the government 's request to extend for an additional year its current three-year extended arrangement granted in 1989 . |
| 16 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 17 | The sonnets may announce a compatibility between poetic convention and authentic expression ; or the sonnets may be the result of Astrophil staying within the muse 's domain , writing in imitation of familiar poetic norms and abandoning the muse 's advice to look for an authentic writing from the heart . |
| 18 | If the system 's charter allowed for a bank governor to be shot at dawn for every month the inflation rate exceeded 1 per cent , it might prove even more counter-inflationary than the Bundesbank . |
| 19 | Conversely , a man 's wish to care for an elderly relative might conflict with the expectation that he should go out to work . |
| 20 | By contrast , where time is not of the essence for the service of a landlord 's notice calling for a rent review , mere delay by the landlord , however lengthy and even if coupled with hardship to the tenant , does not of itself destroy the contractual right which the landlord has to serve a notice . |
| 21 | The same conclusion would probably be reached if the tenant 's break notice had to be served before the last date for service of the landlord 's notice calling for a rent review . |
| 22 | After the failed offensives of the autumn , Pétain wrote a report which conveyed a barely disguised criticism of Joffre 's bull-headed striving for a percée . |
| 23 | in a recent sale Rod Stewart 's Lamborghini went for a mere sixty one thousand pounds , less than half what he paid for it . |
| 24 | He predicts that McDonald 's will ask for a consent of ten p.p.m . |
| 25 | Jack and Miguel got their pars and it was Harley 's turn to go for a closing birdie to put him well up the leader board . |
| 26 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 27 | It remains an important part of the equation to anticipate the government 's spending needs for a period ahead , customarily a year . |
| 28 | You do n't think it could have been the lady of the house 's dress shortened for a maid |
| 29 | Lovejoy 's love goes for a song |
| 30 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |